I just love where I am right now in my career. I love country music. I don't ever feel restricted by the genre. I've been able to have a solid career that we've built one step at a time and a family. I know that I'm in a good place.
It means so much being a part of country music and the Opry.
We are a vibrant first-world country, but we have a humbling third-world memory.
Many of our own people here in this country do not ask about computers, telephones and television sets. They ask - when will we get a road to our village.
We are not being arrogant or complacent when we are said that our country, as a united nation, has never in its entire history, enjoyed such a confluence of encouraging possibilities.
If we only said safe sex, use a condom, we won't stop the spread of AIDS in this country.
A Country is not a mere territory; the particular territory is only its foundation. The Country is the idea which rises upon that foundation; it is the sentiment of love, the sense of fellowship which binds together all the sons of that territory.
So long as you are ready to die for humanity, the life of your country is immortal.
God has given you your country as cradle, and humanity as mother; you cannot rightly love your brethren of the cradle if you love not the common mother.
We had discovered an accursed country. We had found the Home of the Blizzard.
In the country the darkness of night is friendly and familiar, but in a city, with its blaze of lights, it is unnatural, hostile and menacing. It is like a monstrous vulture that hovers, biding its time.
For God's sake bring me a large Scotch. What a bloody awful country.
But if we can work with people in other parties to get the right answer for the country we'll do that.
Reagan was all about America, and you talked about it. Obama is, 'We are above that now. We're not just parochial, we're not just chauvinistic, we're not just provincial. We stand for something.' I mean, in a way, Obama's standing above the country, above - above the world. He's sort of God. He's going to bring all different sides together.
Hopefully as a country, that we learn from our mistakes of the past.